UPLYME and Lyme Regis booked themselves a place in the finals of the Devon League T-20 Corinthian Cup with a scintillating victory over Sidmouth. 

Uplyme loss the toss and Sidmouth opted to bat. The normally reliable Nabi Temori opened the bowling but was a little wayward, however fellow opener Gareth Stoneman bowled his spell of the season with 2-13 off his 4 overs in the power play with Sidmouth scoring 40-2.

In came the Sidmouth skipper Anthony Griffiths and showed his class with a fine knock of 61 off 36 balls until Tyler Wellman removed him.

Sidmouth looked certain on posting a score above 170 which Uplyme felt was above par. But Uplyme's skipper clawed it back with some good death bowling in the last overs and some excellent fielding including two run-outs, and the fielders caught everything, restricting Sidmouth to 154.

Openers Abhi Anand and Joe Elsworth strolled out in front of 96 spectators among an eerie silence with all anticipating a tough chase. However, both struck the ball incredible hard and when the first two balls of the innings hitting the fence it looked ominous.

They continued in the same fashion and accelerated with 12 sixes (with one bouncing in to the Talbot Arms car park) and 12 fours and it was over in flash with more than eight overs to spare! Abhi reached his century in 45 balls and Elsworth supported him well for an unbeaten 44, a partnership of an unbroken 157 in 12.1 overs.

Uplyme have now booked themselves a spot in finals day August 7 in Ivybridge.